Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005

This is our most popular package with UK residents, and includes: -

The registration of your company from scratch using your own registered office address, and appoint your own candidates to the roles of director, secretary (if needed), and shareholder;

The standard capital on formation is £1.00, this is divided into 1.00 ordinary share valued at £1.00 (a minimum of one share must be issued);

The formation of a limited company usually takes as little as four to six hours from the time that your application and payment are received by Coddan;

The government fee for incorporation is included in the price of this package;

The following documents, which need to be printed and signed, will be emailed to you upon formation of your company: -

A certificate of incorporation (requires PDF file reader);

The memorandum & articles of association (requires MS-Word file reader);

The first meeting of the board of directors (requires MS-Word file reader);

Share certificates and a company register (requires MS-Word file reader).

E-Quick Package

£ 32.00

No Annual Charges

The Deluxe limited company package is a fast and easy option, it is ideal for the UK, EU, and international small to medium businesses who wish to appoint a nominee director and a nominee secretary in order to maintain anonymity, and it includes: -

Incorporation of your company from scratch using one of our registered office addresses in London, our nominee director and nominee secretary. We can appoint your own candidate(s) to the role of shareholder(s), or you can appoint a nominee sharholder provided by Coddan;

The standard capital on formation is £1.00, this is divided into 1.00 ordinary share valued at £1.00 (a minimum of one share must be issued);

The formation of a limited company usually takes as little as four to six hours from the time that your application and payment are received by Coddan;

The government fee for incorporation is included in the price of this package;

The provision of a registered office address for 12 months is included in the price of this package (our registered office address service is charged annually);

The provision of a nominee secretary for 12 months is included in the price of this package (our nominee secretary service is charged annually);

The provision of a nominee director for 12 months is also included in the price of this package (our nominee director service is charged annually);

The following two hard bound copies of corporate documents, will be posted to you upon formation of your company: -

A laminated copy of the certificate of incorporation of your company;

A hard bound copy of the memorandum and articles of association;

A hard bound copy of the minutes of the first meeting of directors;

Share certificates, and your company register;

The general power of attorney signed by a nominee director;

Pre-signed, undated resignation letter from a nominee director;

The agreement for the provision of nominee service and indemnification of nominee.

Deluxe Package

£ 557.00

Annual Maintenance Fee £525.00

A private company limited by shares in England and Wales must have at least one director, one shareholder, and may have a secretary.

You need at least one person to form this type of company. If there is only one director, and that director is a natural person in your company, that director can also act as the secretary.

A company must have at least one director who is a natural person. This requirement is met if the office of director is held by a natural person as a corporation sole or otherwise by virtue of an office.

You can register a sole director' company, if you are familiar with the secretaries duties and responsibilities, because all of them belongs to a sole director.

The directors and secretary of your company can also be shareholders.

The Companies Act imposes no restriction on the minimum age of company directors. However Companies House will actively discourage the appointment of anyone under the age of 16 from taking up a company directorship on the grounds that the individuals concerned may not fully understand the legal liabilities that go with the position and for the most part will not have the experience necessary to perform the duties of a company director.

Under the Companies Act 2006, there is no restriction on any or all of the members/shareholders being from an overseas country (i.e. outside the United Kingdom in terms of residency, domicile, citizenship, place of incorporation or all or any of those concepts).

There is no requirement for the officers of your company to be UK citizens or residents, nor for them to hold valid work permits.

Owning, or being an officer of a UK company does not, however, grant you any right to live or work in the UK if you are a foreign national.

Your company must have a registered office address within England or Wales; this is the official address of your company and will be on the public record as such.

Your company must hold its official company documents at its registered office address: its register of shareholders, and its constitutional documents.

So long as you maintain a registered office address in England or Wales, you can conduct your business from any place in the world: you do not have to run your business from your registered office address.

Legal Requirements to Register an LTD

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Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005

2005 Chapter 5 - continued

PART 10, GENERAL PROVISIONS - continued

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CHAPTER 3

SUPPLEMENTARY AND GENERAL PROVISIONS

Orders and regulations

873

Orders and regulations made by Treasury or Board

(1) Any power of the Treasury or the Board of Inland Revenue to make any order or regulations under this Act is exercisable by statutory instrument.

(2) Any statutory instrument containing any order or regulations made by the Treasury or the Board of Inland Revenue under this Act is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply in relation to any order or regulations made under-

(a) section 86 (meaning of "urban regeneration company"),

(b) section 724 (purchased life annuity payments),

(d) section 883(5) (transitional or saving provision).

Interpretation

874

Activities in UK sector of continental shelf

(1) Any profits-

(a) from exploration or exploitation activities carried on in the UK sector of the continental shelf, or

(b) from exploration or exploitation rights,

are treated for income tax purposes as profits from activities or property in the United Kingdom.

(2) In this section-

"exploration or exploitation activities" means activities carried on in connection with the exploration or exploitation of so much of the seabed and subsoil and their natural resources as is situated in the United Kingdom or the UK sector of the continental shelf,

"exploration or exploitation rights" means rights to assets to be produced by exploration or exploitation activities or interests in or to the benefit of such assets, and

"the UK sector of the continental shelf" means the areas designated by Order in Council under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964 (c. 29).

875

Meaning of "caravan"

(1) In this Act "caravan" means-

(a) a structure designed or adapted for human habitation which is capable of being moved by being towed or being transported on a motor vehicle or trailer, or

(b) a motor vehicle designed or adapted for human habitation,

but does not include railway rolling stock which is on rails forming part of a railway system or any tent.

(2) A structure composed of two sections-

(a) separately constructed, and

(b) designed to be assembled on a site by means of bolts, clamps or other devices,

is not prevented from being a caravan just because it cannot, when assembled, be lawfully moved on a highway (or, in Scotland or Northern Ireland, road) by being towed or being transported on a motor vehicle or trailer.

876

Meaning of "farming" and related expressions

(1) In this Act "farming" means the occupation of land wholly or mainly for the purposes of husbandry, but does not include market gardening (see subsection (5)).

(2) Husbandry includes (for example)-

(a) hop growing, and

(b) the breeding and rearing of horses and the grazing of horses in connection with those activities.

(3) For the purposes of this Act the cultivation of short rotation coppice is regarded as farming and not as forestry.

(4) In this Act "woodlands" does not include land on which short rotation coppice is cultivated.

(5) In this Act "market gardening" means the occupation of land as a garden or nursery for the purpose of growing produce for sale.

(6) For the purposes of this section "short rotation coppice" means a perennial crop of tree species planted at high density, the stems of which are harvested above ground level at intervals of less than 10 years.

877

Meaning of grossing up

(1) In this Act references to grossing up by reference to a rate of tax are to calculating the amount ("the gross amount") which after deduction of income tax at that rate would equal the amount to be grossed up ("the net amount").

(2) The gross amount is the sum of the net amount and the tax deducted.

(3) The gross amount may also be expressed as-

	(		R	)
GA = NA +	(	NA ×		)
	(		100 − R	)

where-

GA is the gross amount,

NA is the net amount, and

R is the percentage rate of tax by reference to which the net amount is to be grossed up.

878

Other definitions

(1) In this Act, unless otherwise indicated (whether expressly or by implication)-

"the Board of Inland Revenue" means the Commissioners of Inland Revenue,

"charity" means a body of persons or trust established for charitable purposes only,

"houseboat" means a boat or similar structure designed or adapted for use as a place of human habitation,

"income" includes amounts treated as income (whether expressly or by implication),

"the Inland Revenue" means any officer of the Board of Inland Revenue,

"non-UK resident" means not resident in the United Kingdom (and references to a non-UK resident or a non-UK resident person are to a person who is not resident there),

"normal self-assessment filing date", in relation to a tax year, means the 31st January following the tax year,

"personal representatives", in relation to a person who has died, means-

(a) in the United Kingdom, persons responsible for administering the estate of the deceased, and

(b) in a territory outside the United Kingdom, those persons having functions under its law equivalent to those of administering the estate of the deceased,

"tax year", in relation to income tax, means a year for which any Act provides for income tax to be charged,

"the tax year 2005-06" means the tax year beginning on 6th April 2005 (and any corresponding expression in which two years are similarly mentioned is to be read in the same way), and

"UK resident" means resident in the United Kingdom (and references to a UK resident or a UK resident person are to a person who is resident there).

(2) For the purposes of this Act, the remittance basis applies to a person for a tax year for which the person makes a claim under section 831 (claims for relevant foreign income to be charged on the remittance basis).

(3) In this Act any reference to a claim or election is to a claim or election in writing or in any form authorised (in relation to the case in question) by directions under section 118 of FA 1998.

(4) For further information about claims and elections, see TMA 1970 (in particular, section 42(2), (10) and (11) and Schedule 1A).

(5) Section 839 of ICTA (how to tell whether persons are connected) applies for the purposes of this Act unless otherwise indicated (whether expressly or by implication).

(6) Section 840 of ICTA (meaning of control in relation to a body corporate) applies for the purposes of this Act unless otherwise indicated (whether expressly or by implication).

879

Interpretation: Scotland

(1) In the application of this Act to Scotland-

"assignment" means an assignation,

"mortgage" means-

(a) a standard security, or

(b) a heritable security, as defined in the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924 (c. 27), but including a security constituted by ex facie absolute disposition or assignation, and

"surrender" includes renunciation.

(2) In the application of this Act to Scotland, any reference to property or rights being held on trust or on trusts is a reference to the property or rights being held in trust.

(3) In the application of section 755 (interest on foreign currency securities etc. owned by non-UK residents) to Scotland, "Act" includes an Act of the Scottish Parliament.

(4) In the application of sections 769 (housing grants) and 882 (consequential amendments) and Part 1 of Schedule 2 (transitionals and savings: general provisions) to Scotland, "enactment" includes an enactment comprised in, or in an instrument made under, an Act of the Scottish Parliament.

(5) The express provision made by subsection (4) does not affect the construction of "enactment" in the application of section 631 (retained and accumulated income) to Scotland.

880

Interpretation: Northern Ireland

(1) In the application of section 755 (interest on foreign currency securities etc. owned by non-UK residents) to Northern Ireland, "Act" includes any Act, Order in Council or Measure constituting Northern Ireland legislation.

(2) In the application of section 769 (housing grants) and 882 (consequential amendments) and Part 1 of Schedule 2 (transitionals and savings: general provisions) to Northern Ireland, "enactment" includes an enactment comprised in, or in an instrument made under, Northern Ireland legislation.

(3) The express provision made by subsection (2) does not affect the construction of "enactment" in the application of section 631 (retained and accumulated income) to Northern Ireland.

General and final

881

Disapplication of corporation tax: section 9 of ICTA

Section 9 of ICTA (computation of income for corporation tax purposes: application of income tax principles) does not operate on the provisions of this Act so as to convert them into provisions of the Corporation Tax Acts.

882

Consequential amendments

(1) Schedule 1 (which contains consequential amendments) has effect.

(2) The Treasury may by order make such modifications of any enactment or provision made under an enactment as the Treasury consider appropriate in consequence of this Act.

(3) In subsection (2) "modifications" includes amendments or repeals.

(4) An order under subsection (2)-

(a) must not change the effect of the law as it was immediately before 6th April 2005, and

(b) may include such transitional or saving provision as the Treasury consider appropriate.

(5) Subsection (4)(a) does not apply so far as an order contains provision made in consequence of a change already made by this Act in the effect of the law.

883

Commencement and transitional provisions etc.

(1) This Act comes into force on 6th April 2005 and has effect-

(a) for income tax purposes, for the tax year 2005-06 and subsequent tax years, and

(b) for corporation tax purposes, for accounting periods ending after 5th April 2005.

(2) Subsection (1) is subject to subsections (3) to (5) (including Schedule 2).

(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to the following provisions of this Act (which therefore come into force on the passing of this Act)-

(a) section 873 (orders and regulations made by Treasury or Board),

(b) sections 875 to 881 (certain interpretation and general provisions),

(d) this section other than subsection (4) below,

(e) section 885 and Schedule 4 (abbreviations and general index),

(f) section 886 (short title), and

(g) paragraphs 78 and 148(5) of Schedule 2 (powers relating to open-ended investment companies and periodical payments of personal injury damages etc.) and subsection (4) below so far as it applies for the purposes of those provisions.

(4) Schedule 2 (which contains transitional provisions and savings etc.) has effect.

(5) The Treasury may by order make such transitional or saving provision as the Treasury consider appropriate in connection with the coming into force of this Act.

884

Repeals and revocations

Schedule 3 (which contains repeals and revocations of enactments including certain spent enactments) has effect.

885

Abbreviations and general index in Schedule 4

(1) Schedule 4 (which contains abbreviations and defined expressions that apply for the purposes of this Act) has effect.

(2) Part 1 of that Schedule gives the meaning of the abbreviated references to Acts used in this Act.

(3) Part 2 of that Schedule lists the places where expressions used in this Act are defined or otherwise explained-

(a) in this Act for the purposes of this Act or for purposes including this Act,

(b) in this Act for the purposes of a Part or Chapter of this Act, or

886

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005.

Prepared 29 March 2005


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